Recycling Cans

I walk a lot, to the shops, to the library, and many other places as well. Every day I see used drinks cans dumped alongside the paths and in hedgerows. If people want to dispose of them this way at least drop them where they can easily be picked up by someone else, and not in a hedgerow or other difficult place where it is easy to be scratched and prickled by thorns.

Recycling cans is easy to do and is a great way to help save the environment . Here in the UK our local authority ask us to separate them from the other rubbish and we put them in separate bins or bags which are collected once every two weeks. We are able to mix other recyclables with them as well, so they can evidently be recycled with other recyclable products.

Our local school runs a scheme where they ask parents to bring their empty cans to the school who in turn pass them on to a local recycling company who pay the school for the number of cans collected.

This way the school raises much needed building restoration funds and the environment benefits as well by looking tidier.

Some households generate a lot of empty waste cans to throw away, others have not many at all.  Foods and drinks are typically packaged in cans so it depends on how many of these we buy as to how much waste we have to throw away.

Other than throw empty cans away here are a few other uses I can think of for reusing them.

1. Used ring pull cans could be used as a miniature vase for a flower or two.

2. Rinse out used cans and use them in the garden shed for storing small items such as nails and washers.

3. You could use one to practice your putting. Take it to the office and put it on the floor any time you want to practice your putting.

4. Rather than leave your pens and biros all round the house why not put them all together in a used can.

This is just four ideas of what to do with empty cans if you decide to keep them. All it takes is a little imagination to come up with even more ideas for recycling cans.

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